A dirge
This article is dedicated to one of the lives lost in our campus. Our campus although innocuous has got the potential to take away lives. This may be shocking to you, but this is true story which can be verified by asking any of our hostellers. If you are faint hearted please do not proceed further as the gory details of the death are hard to digest.

It was a sunny day as usual and there was this one poor rat. It lived in abject poverty that it lived in a really wretched place, a place even dreaded by humans to live, the boys hostel. The food the rat used to have was worse and scarce. However it used to feel contented after seeing the food had by the hostellers. Atleast his was better than theirs.
As usual after his frugal lunch he was taking a walk on the roof when the untoward incident happened. One wrong foot and he fell into the water tank. His screams and shouts fell on deaf ears. He struggled for quite some time before giving in.

The even more pathetic part is that he was found only after 3 days. Also his identity couldn’t be established. His body didn’t even receive a proper send off. The three days old bloated corpse was just thrown away without a decent burial that even an orphan human deserves. If only the hostellers had known to use their sense of smell they could have found it out earlier and the rites could have been done a lot earlier.

I hereby kindly request you to observe a two minute silence for the one who has departed from our midst. I also wish such horrible incidents don’t take place in the future in the campus. Even if a rat has to die, can’t it find a more respectable place to end his life rather than a filthy tank that smells so much that even a rotten corpse doesn’t add to the odour.

KNOW MY MATES 3:
In this edition lets come to know about Saravana Kumar a.k.a ojak, manmadan.
This guy comes from Chrompet. He was the first guy I knew in the class, thanks to our common friend Arun. When I was first introduced to him, this guy was a calm, polite, uninteresting kind of guy. But boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

U can never believe how intently he looks at girls. Has a visual memory with infinite capacity. Also takes pains in collecting their details. When we see a girl in campus and turn towards him, he starts reeling out her name, year, branch, address etc.
Of late he has lost interest in his database operations and guys are terribly missing his services.

He belongs to the aristocracy in his native village near Tuticorin. He is touted to be their next nattamai (godfather). I bet he will do a hell of a job with it if he takes it up.

U never feel bored with him, but once he decides to make an arse out of you, I bet u become a really dumb one. Gowri will vouch for it.

He is the first one to watch all new movie releases come what may. Doesn’t allow academic schedule to affect his attendance at cinema halls. He is the last one to start studying before any test but manages to breeze through the exams. Of course we both love taking the easier route with me being a little more adventurous.

I have seen him angry just once when we played a silly joke on him. We had put up a notice in class saying he had lost one of his personal possessions (worn at all times but still I don’t know what it is called in english). We had managed to clip his photo too on it. He was fuming with anger after seeing it. Poor sakthivel who went and asked him abt it got slapped hard.

He enjoys being with his friends (guys). To believe how big the crowd is, u should have seen him during any of our culturals. Outside working hours of college, it really takes some time even for his parents to find out where he is. Usually stays in any of his friends house and occasionally visits home to recharge his wallet.

He gets smitten quite often. When he appears to have found a soul mate as he puts it, he states some inane reason and backs off. Then again starts from ground zero with renewed vigour. The reasons can range from another guy in the class being interested in her to a bumpy ride.

He is great company to be with but can drive you crazy if he wishes that way. So beware and don’t get him on your wrong side. His way of annoying someone is weird and admirable if you don’t like that someone.

I wish this guy settles down with someone instead of just bird watching (an euphemism he tells for his hobby).